wiki:SandBox/danvisel/GROUP_HELP_R1

Version 2 (modified by danvisel, 16 years ago) (diff)

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Tooltips: Dan's Edit

(from GROUP_HELP_R1)

Conventions

I've copied the text from the design section of GROUP_HELP_R1; my suggested changes are in bold.

Tooltips

File File Menu File Menu (Alt-F)
New Book Create a new book. Create a new book
Open Book... Open an existing book. Open an existing book
Close ? Close the current book
Save Save the current book to a file. Save the changes made to the current book
Save As... Save the current book to another file. Save the current book to a file
Save As Template Save the current book as a template. Save the current book as a template
Export Book As ? Save the book As a non-Sophie file format
PDF... ? Save the book As an Adobe Portable Document Format losing some of the content
HTML... ? Save the book As a Web Page losing some of the content
Print... ? Print a page or the whole book to paper
Book Properties... ? View or edit current book's title and dimensions
Quit ? Exit Sophie 2
Edit Edit Menu Edit Menu (Alt-E)
Undo ? Discard the last change
Redo ? Repeat the last discarded change
Cut ? Move the selected element to another location by pasting
Copy ? Copy the selected element to another location by pasting
Paste ? Put the last copied/cut element to selected location
Delete ? Remove the selected element from it's current location
Insert Insert Menu Insert Menu (Alt-E)
Text ? Add an empty text frame to the current page
Image... ? Add an image file to the current page
Audio... ? Add an audio file to the current page
Audio Record... ? Record an audio file and add it to the current page
Video... ? Add a video file to the current page
Book... ? Add a whole book to the current page
PDF... ? Add a PDF document to the current page
HTML... ? Add a Web page to the current page
Plain text... ? Add a text file to the current page
Browser ? Add an interactive web page browser to the current page
Script ? Create an empty script file that can control Sophie
Script file... ? Insert a script that can control Sophie
View View Menu View Menu (Alt-V)
Normal mode ? Switch the view back to a normal window
Full screen mode ? View the application on the whole screen for more convinient work
Skins Skins Menu Skins Menu (Alt-S)
Window Window Menu Window Menu (Alt-W)
Cascade ? Stack book windows so that each window title bar is visible
Tile ? Arrange book windows so they are shown side by side
Book Window Item ? Book Title
Help Help Menu Help Menu (Alt-H)
Help Contents ? Display main help index
Send an Error Report ? Report problems related to application use
About ? Show version and licence information

Opened books tabbar

Show Desktop ? Book desktop - drag frames, resources, etc to the book desktop to make them easily reusable
Book Tab Item ? Full book name

Flaps

Left ? Browse, download, preview books
Right ? Edit books, templates
Bottom ? View and edit timelines

Tabs

Books ? Lists opened and embedded books
Book item in Opened books palette ? Book name - double click to switch to this book
Book item in Embedded books palette ? Book name - This book is embedded, double click to open it in another window
Pages ? Shows thumbnails of pages of the current book and gives opportunity to navigate between pages
Page item ? Click to switch to that page, drag to reorder; drag a page template to the palette to create a new page
Tools ? Provides alternative navigation ways such as search
Search Field ? Enter text to search for
Config ? Application setup and configuration
Plugin item ? Name of the plugin
Enable button ? Enable the selected plugin to use functionalities that it provides
Disable button ? Disable the selected plugin, plugins that depend on this one will also be disabled
Servers ? List of available servers and connectivity options
Server item ? Server Name
Toggle selected button ? Connect or disconnect from the currently selected server
Refresh button ? Get recent server list
Resources ? Used and not used contents of the current book
Copy ? Duplicate the selected resource
Delete ? Remove the selected resource
Changes ? History of the actions performed to the current book
Library ? Lists existing templates for creating frames, pages and books with properties given in advance
Frame template item ? Double click to apply to a selected frame or drag to a page to create a new frame
Page template item ? Double click to apply to the current page or drag the page preview palette to create a new page
Book template item ? Drag to a page to create an embedded book from the template, double click to create a new book from the template
Book Extras ? Shows content that is not part of the book such as stickies, highlights and other external content related to the book
Add Sticky ? Add a little yellow sticky note to the page (this note is not part of the book)
Styles ?
Timelines ? Shows interactivity controls

Book window

Zoom panel ? Zoom in or out to see less/more of the current page elements (Ctrl-+/Ctrl--/Ctrl+*)
Page selector go to prev page ? Go to previous page of the book (PgUp)
Page selector go to next page ? Go to next page of the book (PgDown)
Page selector text field ? Current page, type in a number to go to that page
Search text field ? Enter text to search
Search prev ? Go to previous search result
Search next ? Go to next search result
Outline frames ? Show frame bounds (border, margins and padding)
Open preview ? View the book in a separate window just like it will look to the readers

Book content

Resize cursor ? Drag to resize the frame
Text/Audio/Video/Book/PDF/Browser Frame ? Text/Audio/Video/Book/PDF/Browser frame, you may drag another resource here to replace this frame's content
Page ? Drag resources to the page to create frames with this resources as content

Halos

FramePropertiesHalo ? Frame Properties - Edit size, bounds, position and orientation
FrameAppearanceHalo ? Frame Appearence - Edit frame border and background style
Increase z-order halo ? Increase Z order - Get the frame nearer (in front of neighbour frames)
Decrease z-order halo ? Decrease Z order - Get the frame further (behind neighbour frames)
LinkHalo ? Link management - Add or remove links to other objects
DeleteHalo ? Delete frame - Remove this frame from the page and the resources palette
GroupHalo ? Group - Create a group of the selected objects to manipulate them as one
UngroupHalo ? Ungroup - Break the existing group to release the dependency between grouped objects
AlignHalo ? Align - Align selected objects on the page
EnterGroupHalo ? Enter group - Start editing the objects inside the group as they were not grouped
ExitGroupHalo ? Exit group - Stop editing the objects inside the group and return to parent object (group or page)
CharacterHalo ? Character - Edit font style
PararaphHalos ? Paragraph - Edit text aligment, spacing, etc.
Content control halo (for video, audion, pdf, etc) ? Content - Edit preview options such as frame controllers
AnchorHalo ? Anchor - Click to show text anchoring options, drag to anchor
RotateHalo ? Rotate - Click to show orientation options, drag to rotate
ChainingHalo ? Chaining - Click to show chaining options, drag to another frame to choose where to extend current text